Kevin Clarke

Took some last minute shuffling of flights owing to Washington winter storm wipeout and more is on its way but I have arrived at the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering The event brings together diocesan and parish-based directors and supporters of social justice and peace offices for some

It s nice to be reminded that the U S church has a position on peace we re all for it BTW and that the U S and Russia still have much unfinished business related to the end of the Cold War and the final status of our absurd nuclear weapons stockpiles Here s one time-ordinary of the U S Archdi

Gaza might not be the only thing under siege in the Middle East Israeli democracy has taken a fair number of hits recently A Zionist student organization Im Tirtzu partly bankrolled by the Christian Dispensationalist-Zionist and non-pal to Catholics John Hagee has issued an inflammatory repor

A Jan 12 letter posted at the website of the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States requests that U S women major superiors reconsider their response or lack thereof to the recent questionnaire from the office hat tip to Tom Fox at NCR The letter came from M

Just a few days after Secretary of Defense Bob Gates speaking in Islamabad Pakistan called the Taliban part of Afghanistan s political fabric U S nbsp General Stanley McChrystal the NATO commander in Afghanistan told the Financial Times why he thought the U S troop surge could lead to a ne

The special election of Massachusetts Republican State Senator Scott Brown appears to doom the latest Congressional effort to broaden health services in America If history is any guide it may be a decade before anyone tries again to rationalize America s health delivery service offering effective

Catholic Relief Service workers in the field are reporting unprecedented devastation in Haiti rsquo s capital city Port-au-Prince following yesterday rsquo s 7 0-magnitude earthquake Karel Zelenka CRS rsquo s country representative for Haiti told CRS spokesperson John Rivera the devastation is unl

Just a few days after a Malaysian court ruling allowing a Catholic newspaper to use the word Allah to refer to God seemed to offer the nation rsquo s minority Christians a small civil victory the government has reinistated its ldquo Allah rdquo ban among non-Muslims Malaysian officials are appar

David Gibson puts together a useful analysis of the media s handling of an apparent divergence of opinion between the U S C C B and the Catholic Health Association on the health care reform package see Jim Martin s nbsp previous post nbsp on this and the possible use of federal money to pay for a